St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-12
Hurried Sketch Of the Events
Which Led to Yesterdays
Quadruple Hanging.
Some Of the Societies in Which
the Strangled Men Were
Shining Lights.
The Three Newspapers Which
Constantly Created Unnec-
essary Public Alarm.
Copy Of the Revenge Circular
THE Spies-Van Zant
Love Making.

CHICAGO, Nov. ia more striking
procession of civic events may never
again be witnessed than the one having
its latest outcome to-day.
The supposed absurdly theatrical
demonstration with red banners and
black that took place in the streets OF
Chicago not two winters ago, followed
soon afterward by the picturesque, yet
Ominous, Sunday gatherings of latter
donations, foreigners and demagogues
ON the broad common at the lake front
are now recalled as the fOrerunners of
secret cellar-drillings by hundreds of
ignorant. fanatical rifiemen in the
purlieus throughout the city. Then
came the cool, deliberate dynamite eX-
periments by carefully-selected masked
representatives in the woods Skirting
the suburbs. Later on, secluded in the
quiet of downtown back rooms,
DARK CONCLAvES
of wild-idead but brainy, inscriptions
leaders eagerly discussed as their long
coveted opportunity the juSt-beginning
development of the workingman'S con-
certed movement for uniform eight
hour day.
How the gigantic, peaceful strikes
were turned into riots, how the entire
world was startled by the blOod-chilling
bomb massacre in the Haymarket, then
the majestic state trial, the amazing
bravadO of the one American defendant,
the horrible grotesQue marriage of an
other one of the priSOnerS-every detail
of these strange occurrences and the
wi cnnnpp6InG
presents itself again as if the whole had
passed but yesterday.
The keynote of it all is found in the
platform of
THE MYSTERIOUS 7. A. A.
International Arbeiter CWOrkingmen's)
ASSOciatiOn-Of which organization Au-
gust Spies and his seven cO-defendantS
were leading members and upholders.
In the International platform it is urged
that "the present system under which
property is owned by individuals should
be destroyed" and that all capital which
has been produced by labor should be
transformed into common property ''by
force" Eighty ''grOups" of this dan
gerOuS association existed in the United
States, chiefly in the great industrial
centers, Chicago alone being the i'll
starred pOSsesSOr of seven. Only a por-
ton of the members were armed, yet
the number of this class in Chicago eX-
ceeded 5000, every man of whom at
tended regular military drills, had his
own rifle and revolver, and could obtain
DYNAMITE AND BOMBS
for the asking. The unarmed members
of the groups were constantly in contact
with their armed brethren and in
hearty sympathy with their purposes
and principles. 1t was this compact,
we'll disciplined l. A. A. that had for its
organs the three noted newspaperS-the
Arbeiter Zeitung, the Alarm and the
Anarchist. Excepting handsome, youth
full Louis Lingg, who, though taking a
conspicuous part, was a mere acting
agent, each of
THE EIGHT HAYMARKET DEFENDANTS
was directly connected with one of these
papers.
August Spies, a keen. cynical Hes
sian, with the subtle intellectual vigOr
of an Iago, was editor-in-chief of the
Arbeiter. The jaunty, daredevil little
Texan, Albert r. Parsons, brother of a
confederate general. presided over the
Alarm. At the head of the Anarchist
George Engel, another Hessian, but OF
most blood-thirsty utterances of his
compeers. While Sam Fielden, tie
Englishman, sullen-looking. shaggy and
fOrbidding, but as an agitatOr simply
volcanic, and Oscar Neebe, the polished,
attractive German-American organizer,
were more especially concerned in other
than journalistic branches of the propa-
ganda, they were, nevertheless, among
the directors respectively of the Alarm
and Arbeiter Zeitung. The gaunt Ba-
varian Michael Schwab was Spies as
SiStant editor, and his fellOw-country-
man, Adolph Fischer. he of the poisoned
dagger, was the Arbeiter's head fore
man.
Not one of these men-however they
might split hairs, could candidly deny
that he was instrumental to greater or
less degree in helping on the catastrophe
at the Haymarket. Of the legal guilt of
each nothing need be said further than
that its certainty was put to tests sell
dom, if ever, paralleled.
mountaineering the defendants, one and
all, were necessarily active in
AGITATING AND ORGANIZING
in demonstrations" and ''experi-
ments" Their speeches and articles
fairly bristled with impassiOned appeals
for the labOring people to provide them
selves with firearms and dynamite.
Specific instructions were given how to
handle and use the explosive, and how
to make bombs and how to procure
weapons. All this was stated by the
conspirators to be making ready for the
coming ''social revolution" What was
meant by ''sOcial revolution" was not
left to be vaguely inferred, nor was the
time when it was to be inaugurated a
dim uncertainty of the future. The
revolution" was frequently defined in
speech and writing as sudden, bloody,
f0rcible upheaval of the right of private
ownership of property, then the bring
all property should be held in common.
Incredible as it may seem, the avOWed
purpose was
TO DELUGE THE CITY IN BLOOD
of the property owning classes, first de-
strOying the police and militia, who
were derided as their special champions.
The period of confusion developing
from the mammoth strikes of the first of
May, 1886, was definitely announced
months before as the time when the
fearful bolt should fall. Pitiless as was
this programme and difficult as belief
is that it ever was contemplated by
men, the facts as stated were abundantly
proven in court.
The dlab0llSm was fully shared In by
women. Especially so was this the case
in the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS
like the red-fag professions of raga-
mullins with torches that attempted at
night to enter the magnificent new
board of trade when the dedication
festivities of the institution had for the
time being transformed the huge build
ing into scene of social brilliance
without local precedent. The repul-
sive, disappearing intruders of both sexes
were sternly forced back at the muzzleS
of three dozen police revolverS. In af-
fairs like this the dusky wife of Parsons
and other no less desperate women
seemed in their proper element. Of the
many other queer outbreaks preceding
the Haymarket tragedy, the most start
ling at the time perhaps. was the pa